The sky had completely darkened, and the waves crashing around the island had fallen into total stillness.
Silence—an eerie, deathly silence.
Not a sound could be heard from anywhere, not even the trickle of water; everything was engulfed in pitch-black darkness.
An inexplicable fear welled up in An Ling’s heart, and she didn’t even dare to imagine how everyone was going to get through this night.
She activated the light screen and, using the faint glow, checked her supplies.
This was somewhat considerate—her backend system could directly aggregate all the island’s resources instead of forcing her to count blindly in the dark.
【Mineral Water*4, Soda Crackers*2, Compressed Biscuits*8, Wood*48, Rope*20, Thatch*13, Iron Nails*2, Plastic*5, Glock 18*1】
These were all the remaining materials after building the workbench and simple tent, earning her a total of 4 points.
Still fumbling in the dark, An Ling pulled out a bundle of thatch and two pieces of wood from the wooden box.
With the help of her lighter, she started a fire outside the tent.
The flames grew steadily, casting an orange-red glow that dispelled the surrounding darkness, bringing her a small sense of security.
Now that she had a fire for light, she began to take out some food from the box, preparing to address her hunger.
With no other food available, she had no choice but to eat the compressed biscuits.
The packaging was plain, with no ingredient list, only a tiny orange drawn on the front, indicating it was orange-flavored.
One packet of compressed biscuits and the half bottle of mineral water left from the afternoon would be her dinner tonight.
“These compressed biscuits really taste awful.”
An Ling hurriedly took a sip of water and patted her chest a few times.
Before long, the food was gone.
“Guess it’s a bit of an advantage being a girl.”
Looking at her personal info, her fullness level had already risen to 80%.
No wonder—girls generally have smaller appetites.
However, her cleanliness rating had dropped from 86% to 79%, since she had worked up a sweat that afternoon.
Without any cleaning measures, that cleanliness value was bound to keep decreasing.
Her initial high cleanliness was probably because she was a girl.
After wasting half the day and only managing to scavenge this heap of junk, coupled with arriving in this strange world and the fear of the night, An Ling’s mood was quite low.
But her mental fortitude was decent—by now she no longer treated all this as a dream; she truly understood that her survival here was real.
The survival manual’s vague statement about no resources appearing at night was puzzling, but An Ling could guess it wasn’t based on a fixed time schedule but rather on sunrise and sunset.
Now, no one could obtain any materials.
Instead, everyone turned to chatting on the system.
Of course, An Ling was no exception.
“Not a single piece of food today. I’ve already eaten three packets of compressed biscuits all day—what terrible luck!”
“The difficulty of fishing from the wooden boxes is insane, the hooks hardly ever catch anything.”
“I’m an avid angler, honestly, for those who’ve never held a fishing rod before, it’s really tough. But I caught three boxes today, hahaha!”
“It’s so dark, I’m so scared…”
“If only I had a teammate. Staying silent all alone on this island is going to drive me mad eventually.”
“I can sing, dance, rap. Is there a kind soul who’ll give me a bottle of water? I’ll perform for you.”
An Ling found the chat pointless and closed it, then opened the trading module to take a look.
The trading panel was divided into three columns and scrolled downwards on the right.
It was densely packed with all sorts of items people needed, but after one afternoon, trading had already become downright ridiculous.
【40% Dried Adult Feces 50g / Compressed Biscuit*1】
【A Pair of Stinky Socks That Knock You Out with One Sniff*2 / Mineral Water 500ml*1】
【Yellowed, Smoked Underwear*1 / Wood*5】
“What kind of perverts are these people? Disgusting.”
An Ling felt nauseated and quickly closed the interface.
As for unlocked buildings, she planned to look at them tomorrow.
It was pitch dark now, and she didn’t want to leave her tent.
At this pace, everyone’s progress on the first day was roughly the same.
At least after a couple of days, when the compressed biscuits were almost gone, differences would start to emerge.
Here, food and fresh water were forever the scarcest resources.
The trading goods were still fairly normal; she hadn’t seen anyone bring out anything no one had ever seen before.
The two logs outside were almost burnt out.
Glancing at the time, it was past nine.
No need to waste more wood; she decided to sleep directly.
The floor of the simple tent was lined with a layer of thatch, but she found it uncomfortable.
So she took a few more bundles of thatch from the wooden box and spread them over the floor.
The light screen emitted a very faint glow, about as bright as a phone screen set to the lowest brightness at night.
It only illuminated a small area around her, and if left untouched for five minutes, it would automatically shut off—so frustrating.
Not only that, after repeated experiments, An Ling nearly swore out loud.
After continuous auto-shutdowns, the light screen even developed a cooldown period.
At first, it was one minute, then the second time it became five minutes—just like repeatedly entering the wrong phone password, it would lock you out and forbid reactivation.
Well, that idea of using the light screen for lighting was shattered; the system simply wouldn’t let you exploit that loophole.
An Ling lay down on the thatch, which was hard and even a bit cold.
The fire outside the tent had already gone out, and the darkness returned in full force.
The night was long and hard to endure, accompanied by endless darkness and loneliness.
That survivalist was right—if this went on for too long, people might really go mad.
She lay there, bored, watching the other survivors chat.
That was everyone’s only form of entertainment, especially the survivor 10086, who annoyed her greatly.
Like some internet beggar, he kept asking others for supplies.
They all came here to survive—what good was it that you can play basketball?
After an unknown amount of time, the light screen automatically shut off, and the surroundings fell into complete darkness.
An Ling gradually drifted into a deep sleep…